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Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsFor readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple's search for salvation.
by Matthew Klam
Published Jul 2018
Read ReviewsA provocative satire of love, sex, money, and politics that unfolds over four wild days in so-called "paradise" - the long-awaited first novel from the acclaimed author of Sam the Cat.
by Glennon Doyle Melton
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsThe highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
A 2016 Oprah Bookclub Selection
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
by Suzanne Berne
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsA comedy of manners that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America from the Orange Prizewinning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood.
by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Published Aug 2015
Read ReviewsA striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.
by David Nicholls
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsA compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families togetherand what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to fall apart.
by Jenny Offill
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsDept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
by Jincy Willett
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA scathingly funny and wickedly humorous roman-a-clef by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists - about a bitterly uninspired writer who decides to change her life after a freak accident.
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
by Jonathan Evison
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsBursting with energy, this big-hearted, soulful, and inspired novel ponders life's terrible surprises and the heart's uncanny capacity to mend and become whole again.
by Kate Christensen
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsFrom the PEN/Faulkner Awardwinning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.
by Steve Salerno
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsSHAM shows how thinly credentialed "experts" now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries.
by Jane Heller
Published Feb 2002
Read ReviewsFemale Intelligence is a hilarious look at our inability to bridge the communication gap between men and women, despite all the Mars/Venus books on the market.
by Helen Fielding
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsThis laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement.
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